First of all, please don’t mistake me for one of "those people" who fill out a bunch of brackets and can’t keep them straight and spends March weekends saying idiotic, offensive things like, "Well, in this bracket I have"

First of all, please don’t mistake me for one of "those people" who fill out a bunch of brackets and can’t keep them straight and spends March weekends saying idiotic, offensive things like, "Well, in this

I like to follow with these things that, basically, says that emotion is a big part of the tournament and once the machine starts rolling you have to play against the machine.

Well, the machine has been all over Michigan State and Louisville. Even the president picked Michigan State and, I believe, Louisville somehow rose to the overall betting favorite. So while I really like both those teams, it’s a bad bet to go with who everyone else is taking. Plus, I do think there might be something to the idea that edges come and go with public perception.

Like, for instance, when the bracket came out I really liked North Dakota State over Oklahoma in the first round. But, as it turns out, that’s an upset a lot of folks have been predicting this week. NDSU

and

Oklahoma are now aware of that and, pseudo-science or not, I do believe that puts NDSU in a tough spot.

So, anyway, after a few days of reading up on teams and thinking more and figuring out the groupthink to play against, I’ve come up with an all-new bracket that I’ll play for the money^ and that is undoubtedly every bit as wrong as the one that took me two minutes.

^

Unless the fuzz is reading this. Then, you know, I would never enter an NCAA Tournament bracket for money.